I've been working on a setting in a campaign I'm building for D&D game, and want to incorporate a bit of Gaelic. Decided to put together some titles by looking up various words, but I have questions in regards to grammar, and if my approach is even the right way to go about this kind of thing.

I'm wanting a term/title that essentially means something akin to "healing fairy" or "healer fae". The closest I've found is Leighis si, but this is simply throwing a couple words together. I'm not sure if this is conjugated properly, or if it should be hyphenated, or if like some languages the like-syllables should be combined in some way. Or heck, for all I know I'm completely wrong.

I've been working on a setting in a campaign I'm building for D&D game, and want to incorporate a bit of Gaelic. Decided to put together some titles by looking up various words, but I have questions in regards to grammar, and if my approach is even the right way to go about this kind of thing.

I'm wanting a term/title that essentially means something akin to "healing fairy" or "healer fae". The closest I've found is Leighis si, but this is simply throwing a couple words together.

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I'm not sure if this is conjugated properly, or if it should be hyphenated, or if like some languages the like-syllables should be combined in some way. Or heck, for all I know I'm completely wrong.

Okay, so I'm a bit confused. If Fairy is being used as an adjective, it's Si, but as a noun, it's Siog, right? Then wouldn't that mean that both siog leighis or leighis si would be correct, but have different implications? The first being healing descrining the fairy, the second being fairy describing the healer?

Okay, so I'm a bit confused. If Fairy is being used as an adjective, it's Si, but as a noun, it's Siog, right? Then wouldn't that mean that both siog leighis or leighis si would be correct, but have different implications? The first being healing descrining the fairy, the second being fairy describing the healer?

Leighis also is a genitive singular, and means ‘of medicine, medicine’s’, and also is used as an adjective ‘pertaining to medicine’. The nominative is leigheas.

So leighis sí would mean ‘of medicine of a fairy mound’, and does not mean a lot on its own. As Irish does not like double genitives, and often does other things when it has sequences like ‘a son of a father of a brother of an uncle etc…’, I am not entirely sure if something like ‘effects of fairy medicine’ would be éifeachtaí leighis sí or éifeachtaí leigheas sí¹…

‘fairy medicine’ could be leigheas sí, lit. ‘medicine of a fairy mound’ (although there might be better ways to say it, I am far from being native or even actually competent in the language).‘healer fairy’ is sióg leighis, lit. ‘fairy of medicine’.

¹ GnaG gives only examples with one of the nouns definite. Anyone care to comment what happens to ‘a X of a Y’? Can multiple genitive happen here?